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Why didn’t she call it in?

That question burned in her chest as the moment stretched thin, the palace guard locked in silent defiance, the jeering tourist still too arrogant to notice the danger he was walking toward. Her hand brushed the outline of the radio at her hip. She could press the button, break the silence, let her team know something was unfolding.

But she didn’t.

Because this wasn’t just about orders. It wasn’t about mission protocol. It was about something else. Something deeper.

She told herself she was just waiting. Waiting for a clearer signal, waiting for proof that this wasn’t just theater. But beneath that excuse, buried like shrapnel under scar tissue, was truth: she needed to see this play out. Needed to understand why the guard’s silence rattled her more than the tourist’s laughter.

The sun pressed down, hot against the back of her neck. Her scarf clung to her skin, beads of sweat forming at her hairline. Around her, the crowd seemed suspended, caught between unease and curiosity. They had come for photographs, for spectacle, for stories to carry home. They hadn’t expected to witness the fragile line between discipline and eruption.

The guard’s eyes never left the tourist. His jaw was carved from stone, his weapon steady, posture perfect. But his silence—it wasn’t empty. It was screaming without sound.

And she understood it in a way no one else could.

Because she, too, had once been trained to hold a line. To remain motionless when taunted, to wait when instinct screamed to move. To carry silence as both shield and sword.

But she had broken, once.

And the cost of that failure followed her into every mission.

The crowd shifted again. A middle-aged woman whispered sharply to her husband, tugging at his arm, urging him to pull her away from the unfolding scene. But the husband lingered, camera raised, greed in his eyes. The child began to cry softly, clutching her mother’s leg.

And still the tourist grinned.

He stepped closer, too close, his sandal scraping against the smooth stone courtyard. He raised his hand as though to touch the guard’s uniform, mockingly saluting, daring him to respond.

Her pulse spiked.

One more step. One more insult. One more second of arrogance—and the silence could break.

She inhaled, deep, steady. The decision pressed hard against her chest. Call it in. Or stay hidden.

But then something else caught her. Something unexpected.

The guard’s lips parted. Just slightly. Not enough to form a word. Not enough for the crowd to hear. But she saw it. A flicker of movement.

A breath? A warning? A prayer?

She couldn’t tell.

But in that half-second, the memory hit her again—the boy in the desert. The one who never got the chance to speak before she made her choice. The one whose silence still haunted her.

And now, here she was, reliving it in a palace courtyard thousands of miles away.

Her chest tightened. She forced her eyes away from the guard and swept them across the edges of the square.

That was when she saw him.

Not the guard. Not the tourist. Someone else.

At first, just a shadow near the far archway. Someone who didn’t fit the rhythm of the crowd. Too still. Too deliberate. His gaze wasn’t on the guard or the tourist—it was scanning the people. Scanning the exits.


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